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Show 156 {/1 HM differs/it Paris (3/ HM BUII)'. Oftbr: particular Distribution (ft/M flbsorbmt Vessels nearest glands, from the nearest trunks, and to return its absorbents to the of the testicle, t hese glands I have already said, that, in schirrus or cancer size. Nucl' appears immense an to enlarged and infected, s were sometime Haller- says, testicle. to have been the first who saw the lymphatics of the liZEC Ivasa disten- " Oliin Cl. Nuckius llatu per venas spermatieas impulso a timica nasci, in derat, ct ad quadraginta vasa lymphatica etc albugine n chyli deponeic eisternai in lympham suamque , corillucre quinque ramos ureterain ‘ . . tendere, doeuerat: aliud vcro vasculum cum ductu delerente ad . sir- spermaticis, _ (.raa- paritcrque prope renes in cisternam finiri. Ligatisya ance in this hus utebatur, ct ejus preeceptor Sylvius." 'I‘liereis a Circumst thatvthey ter- description which rcndcts it suspicious ; that is, his asserting S minated immediately in the receptacle of the chyle. In all my MUCCtIOIi of those vessels, they have constantly terminated in the lumbar glands. Dr. Jolilfc appears to have been the first who saw those vessels on the spermatic cord of the living human subject, as I have formerly observed. Haller appears also to have seen them, but, With his usual-candor and mo- desiv, confesses that he knew very little either of their origin or termina- tion: " In homine aliquoties vidi majtiscula, non tamen valde numerosa, in funiculo scminali cum venis adsccnclentia, valvulosa, ut tamcn neque originein, ncque finem satis accurate viderem." THE ABSORBENTS OF THE UTERIfsi As the uterus has two sets of arteries and veins, it has also two sets of absorbent vessels: one of these is the largest, and accompanies the hypo- gastrie arteries and veins; I have usually named them Iympliatz'crz [typogra- il‘im. The other is smaller, and accompanies the spermatie arteries and veins; and which I have usually distinguished by the name of lymph/[tied sprrliialicti, In the gravid uterus, the trunks of the hypogastric absorbents are as large as a goose-quill, and the vessels themselves so numerous, that, when they only were injected with quicksilver, one would have been al- most tempted to suppose that the uterus consisted of absorbents only. In the unimpregnated uterus they are not so easily detected; but, when that 157 macerated in water for some days, the air then produced in the cellular membrane, by putrefaction, gets into the absorbent vessels, and makes them perfectly distinct. The hypogastric plexus pass from above down- wards, into glands which are situated on the sides of the vagina; which enlarge, as the vessels themselves do, in the impregnated state, though they are almost invisible in the unimpregnated state: from these glands the trunks of these vessels pass to other glands, surrounding the internal iliac artery and vein, and which have been already described; these glands and vessels together I have distinguished by the name ofpliumr iliacur iilft'rm/s : from these they pass into the lumbar glands, and there blending with the trunks from the lower extremities, they pass into the thoracic duct. ()1! the in- ternal surface of the gravid uterus, at that part where the placenta had for- nicrly adhered, I have seen quicksilver, which I had thrown into these ves- sels from the external surface of the uterus, escaping at torn extremities of vessels which had been passing into the placenta, cvcn contrary to the valves. The absorbents which accompany the spcrmatic artery and vein are nei- ther so large nor so numerous as the former; they belong chiefly to the ovarium, fallopian tube, and the round ligament, they anastomose with the former in such a manner that they are frequently injected from them,- this cannot happen in any other way than contrary to the valves. They run up on the spermatie cord, withotit passing through any gland, till they come to the same place where the absorbents ofthe testicle terminate in the male,there they also terminate, in glands situated on the sides of the vertebrae of the loins: from these glands they pass otit, and blending with the lumbar plexus, get into the thoracic duct. In quadrupeds the absorbent \‘es. ls ofthe uterus are very easily distinguished, and they i‘amify exactly as the arteries and veins. I have frequently injected them with quicksilver, in vast numbers, with the same lacility, nearly, that I injected the arteries and veins; there are commonly one on each side of every artery, so that they are exactly double their number. The absorbent vt‘ ‘els of the human uterus were first seen by Mery, af- terwards by Morgagni and Winslow. Ilaller says, " Vidit in humano utc- viscus has been injecred by the arteries and the veins, and has afterwards been ro Johannes Mcry, in omnibus ad instrumentum genitalc pertinentibus maccratett partibus; - .s..q.r..m-w. arvvwozay-j... ‘m:'m¢~wifirkivifiw |